How can we measure the health of the population?

Question 1

Why do you need to measure the health of the population?
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Answer 1

• how common is the disease
• identify longitudinal trends
• service planning
• identify patterns and differences between different groups
• are interventions having an ill-effect

Question 2

6 sources of information on the health of the population

Answer 2

census
death certification
health survey for england
general lifestyle survey
GP research database
hospital episode statistics

Question 3

Define fertility rate

Answer 3

number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-44

Question 4

Define total fertility

Answer 4

the average number of children that a woman would bear if they experienced the age-specific fertility rates at that point in time

Question 5

Define prevalence

Answer 5

the proportion of people in a population of known size who have a particular disease at one point in time

Question 6

Define incidence

Answer 6

the number of new cases over a period of time in a population of known size

Question 7

Define infant mortality rate

Answer 7

the number of deaths in children under 1 out of all live births

Question 8

What is crude mortality rate?

What is disease specific mortality rate?

Answer 8

number of total deaths divided by total midyear pop

number of deaths from a particular disease divided by total midyear pop